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Robert hughes |
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2013 |
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A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
First published by Collins Harvill, 1987.
Paperback: 720 pages.
Publisher's blurb:
In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia.
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.
The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning, scholarly, brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia.
Personal remarks:
This book is a brilliant but hard read, Much like
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I had to keep putting the book aside - man's mistreatment of man makes hard going.